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Finding the Main Idea - Sorting Worksheet

In English Reading Reading and Comprehension Strategies

PDF | 3 pages|Grades: 3 - 4

A worksheet and answer sheet to use when teaching students how to find the main idea of a text.

Use this worksheet when teaching your students about the main idea comprehension strategy.

Students cut out paragraphs and then match them with the main idea on the table provided.

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Comprehension Strategy Teaching Resource Pack - Finding the Main Idea
A comprehensive resource pack helping students to learn how to find the main idea.

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NSW Curriculum alignment

EN2-11D
Responds to and composes a range of texts that express viewpoints of the world similar to and different from their own
In English Stage 2 D. Express themselves and their relationships with others and their world

Victorian Curriculum alignment

VCELY257
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to evaluate texts by drawing on a growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features
In English Level 3 Reading and Viewing Literacy
VCELY288
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning to expand content knowledge, integrating and linking ideas and analysing and evaluating texts
In English Level 4 Reading and Viewing Literacy

Australian Curriculum alignment

ACELY1680
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to evaluate texts by drawing on a growing knowledge of context, text structures and language featuresElaborationsmaking connections between the text and students own experie...
In English Year 3 Literacy Interpreting, analysing, evaluating
ACELY1692
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning to expand content knowledge, integrating and linking ideas and analysing and evaluating textsElaborationsmaking connections between the text and studentsâ own experience and oth...
In English Year 4 Literacy Interpreting, analysing, evaluating

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